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Edward Willis Redfield ( 1869 – 1965 ) Plate 35 Christmas Morning Oil on canvas 32 5 / 16 x 40 1 / 4 inches Signed lower left: E.W. Redfield provenance Mrs. Henry Lang Montclair Art Museum, 1935 , gift from the above exhibited The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings , 1932 – 1933 North Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, Paintings by Daniel Garber and EdwardW. Redfield , October 9 – 27 , 1935 Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Exhibition of Paintings and Crafts by EdwardW. Redfield , 1959 literature Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1977 ), pp. 112 , 222 , no. 274 . M. S. Kushner et al., Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection (NewYork: Hudson Hills Press in association with Montclair Art Museum, 1989 ), p. 170 , no. 376 . J. M. W. Fletcher, EdwardWillis Redfield, 1869 – 1965 : An American Impressionist, His Paintings and the Man Behind the Palette (Lahaska, Pa.: JMWF Publishing, 1996 ), p. 159 , no. 166 . note This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work by Thomas Folk. The Beauty of Winter Edward Willis Redfield was one of the most popular landscape painters in early twentieth-century America, and he was particularly acclaimed for such winter paintings as Christmas Morning . One critic called him“the first American painter to glorify the beauty of snow-clad hills and trees, ice- bound streams and the cold majesty of winter skies.” 2 A true impressionist, Redfield was renowned for his depictions of the texture and color of snow as well as for his ability to portray the essence of a season in his paintings, which were typically completed in the course of a single day. — agr Redfield’s works are featured in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Detroit Institute of Arts. 1 HelenW. Henderson, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Other Collections (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1911 ), pp. 141 – 143 . Reprinted in Constance Kimmerle, EdwardW. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing (Doylestown, Pa.: James A. Michener Art Museum; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2004 ), p. 119 . 2 “FolksWorth Knowing in the Delaware Valley,” Lambertville (N.J.) Record , October 24 , 1929 . Reprinted in Kimmerle, p. 125 . 3 Thomas Folk, Edward Redfield: First Master of the Twentieth-century Landscape (Allentown, Pa.: Allentown Art Museum, 1987 ), p. 54 . The influence of the work of EdwardW. Redfield upon the landscape of the present day is one of the strongest in the movement of contemporary art. helen w. henderson , author and art critic, 1911 1